The planned indigenous high-speed trains will be developed from the current Vande Bharat platform. The signalling systems for these corridors will facilitate the development of Kavach 5.0, representing the most sophisticated automatic train protection technology.
“Work on the bullet train corridor in Maharashtra picked up pace after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government took charge. Entire land acquisition is complete and over 320-kilometres of the physical infrastructure work is ready,” the official said.

Regarding future high-speed corridors, the official told ET that insights from the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) project will be valuable. “India is now capable to single-handedly take up this project in more corridors. We should have our own trains in future corridors as well,” he said.
“India wants to become fully capable of making bullet trains that can touch speeds of up to 280 kilometres per hour (kmph) and average at 250 kmph operational speed,” a second official said.

Regarding India’s indigenous bullet train development strategy, the second official explained, “There will be incremental improvement in Bogies (suspension systems). But power train and body will require significant development. They will take around three year